Hi,

I am trying to install the pasilla package by following the bioconductor website instructions :

if (!requireNamespace("BiocManager", quietly = TRUE))
    install.packages("BiocManager")
BiocManager::install("pasilla", version = "3.8")

But I have the following answer :

Installing package into ‘/home/myname/R/x86_64-pc-linux-gnu-library/3.4’
(as ‘lib’ is unspecified)
Warning in install.packages :
  package ‘BiocManager’ is not available (for R version 3.4.4)

How can I install the bioManager package and so the pasilla package ?

Thank a lot

You can do either

1. Install the current version of R (R-3.5.2), then use install.packages to install BiocManager, and then the pasilla package (recommended)
2. Stick with your current version of R, install BiocInstaller by doing source("https://www.bioconductor.org/biocLite.R") and then biocLite("pasilla"). This isn't really recommended, as we don't support old versions of R/Bioconductor, so I would do #1 if at all possible.